The electric guitar
Subtitle: a history of an American icon
By: edited by André Millard
Contributors: Millard, A. J
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press; For the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Baltimore; Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
Subjects: Electric guitar -- History -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Description: "In The Electric Guitar scholars working in American studies, business history, the history of technology, and musicology come together to explore the instrument's importance as an invention and its peculiar place in American culture. Documenting the critical and evolving relationship among inventors, craftsmen, musicians, businessmen, music writers, and fans, the contributors look at the guitar not just as an instrument but as a mass produced consumer good that changed the sound of popular music and the self-image of musicians."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "The book is drawn from a 1996 symposium on the invention of the electric guitar presented by the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Technology, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution"--ECIP data

Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Table of contents: title: Introduction: American icon; title: The music: the electric guitar in the American century / Charles McGovern; title: Inventing the electric guitar / André Millard; title: Manufacturing: expansion, consolidation, and decline / James P. Kraft; title: Solidbody electric guitars / André Millard; title: Recording: the search for the sound / Susan Schmidt-Horning; title: Playing with power: technology, modernity, and the electric guitar / André Millard; title: The guitar hero / André Millard, after the collaborative paper with Rebecca McSwain; title: Heavy metal: from guitar heroes to guitar gods / André Millard, after the collaborative paper with Rebecca McSwain; title: Women guitarists: gender issues in alternative rock / John Strohm; title: Conclusion: the electric guitar at the millennium